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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
A Hades-inspired isometric action roguelite set at an academy for trainee Grim Reapers, pairing fluid scythe-and-crossbow combat and a genuinely fresh QTE gear-crafting system with warmly received relationship and dialogue systems, held back for some players by a shallow, quickly-exhausted pool of run-to-run upgrades.
6.5 / 10
A first-person gardening job gone strange, where trimming grass and watering flowers gradually gives way to a knowledge-gated mystery about a missing owner and an unsettling town, earning constant Outer Wilds comparisons that a large, thoughtful minority of players argues don't actually hold up once the loop's failure states and repeated chores set in.
6.5 / 10
A decade in the making, Slow Bros.' stop-motion narrative adventure hand-crafts every character, room and prop as a physical model before scanning it into the game — an unprecedented, genuinely unique visual achievement that critics and players alike say comes at the cost of almost any actual gameplay, with fetch-quest tasks and long, repetitive backtracking that a real and vocal share of both audiences found tedious well before the ten-to-fifteen-hour story concludes.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
A procedurally generated spaceship-heist game from the developers of Gunpoint, Very Positive across more than 6,100 reviews for its inventive, gadget-driven stealth sandbox — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the core loop runs out of new ideas within its first five to ten hours, and by a development history that quietly stalled around 2021 as the studio moved on to its next game.
6.5 / 10
A tiny, solo-developed desktop-pet idle game about a duck that eats grass, lays eggs, and earns coins on a floating island — Positive across 26 reviews for its charm and background-companion appeal, with quick post-launch support but a couple of nagging quality-of-life bugs.
6.5 / 10
A relaxed, Papers Please-inspired book-lending simulator set in a steampunk Victorian university, following new librarian Rainn Echo across six weeks of checking books in and out while an unfolding mystery slowly reveals itself in hidden notes and morning news snippets, held back by a genuinely rough set of interface and stability complaints.
6.5 / 10
An Early Access tactical auto-battler where you train a rookie hero, choose how to handle captured villains, and manage a city-wide Fear meter that ends your run if it maxes out, drawing an early Positive reception for its tight combat loop and choice-driven boss encounters, tempered by reports of thin build variety and a short current content window.
6.5 / 10
The concluding chapter of the World of Assassination stealth-sandbox trilogy, Very Positive across nearly 31,000 reviews for gameplay reviewers consistently call the best in the series — undercut by an extremely consistent, top-voted complaint about a genuinely confusing and predatory bundle-and-DLC purchasing structure, and a well-corroborated complaint that a fully single-player game enforces an always-online requirement.
6.5 / 10
The latest yearly entry in a devoted cross-platform hockey GM sim series, praised by longtime fans for fast simulation speed, deep customisation options and a responsive solo developer, undercut by real launch bugs including broken save progression and startup hangs for some players, plus honest acknowledgment from hardcore genre veterans that its strategic depth sits below dedicated PC-only rivals.
6.5 / 10
A polished AdVenture Capitalist-style idle tycoon that still earns steady thumbs-ups eight years on, even though its developer stopped visibly supporting it in 2019.
6.5 / 10
A jumpscare wrapped in a clicker "Horripilant" casts the player as an amnesiac knight clawing through a forsaken dungeon, mixing point-and-click horror puzzling with idle
6.5 / 10
Horse Manager is a $2.99 solo-developed management sim from André Cerqueira that asks a simple question: what if you ran a horse racing stable, rendered entirely in charming retro
6.5 / 10
The comfort-game renovation sim that made cleaning and decorating genuinely satisfying — weighed down by a progress-erasing bug reviewers have reported for years and a sprawling paid DLC ecosystem that locks most of the game's achievements behind it.
6.5 / 10
A Sentient Sausage Takes Over Your Desktop How to Grow Your Sausage is exactly as tongue-in-cheek as its title suggests: a small desktop widget-game where a sentient sausage hijack
6.5 / 10
A well-liked, honestly-scoped sequel where you pilot an experimental helicopter against battleship fleets — competent and satisfying for its advertised five hours, with one reported save issue this review couldn't independently confirm.
6.5 / 10
A fruit-merging incremental that wears its debt to Gnorp Apologue openly and executes the formula well enough to earn Very Positive reviews, undercut mainly by a name that promises more hands-off progress than the game is actually willing to give.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play boat-and-crew idler with 1,215 Steam achievements and a genuinely active two-year patch history, undercut by a store-page AI Generated Content Disclosure and a bolt-on excavation system that its own achievement data shows almost nobody finishes.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely novel fusion of tower defense and incremental progression, praised by most reviewers for its unique geometric theme, deep tech tree, and responsive developer, though a post-update report of severe lag and lost save data suggests the experience isn't uniformly smooth for everyone.
6.5 / 10
A satisfying bug-blasting incremental with real Starship Troopers energy, launched a little rough and a little short — then genuinely fixed across three fast, well-targeted post-launch updates.
6.5 / 10
Read review of IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators
Kolibri Games' decade-old mobile idle didn't just popularise the miner-elevator-warehouse loop, it more or less invented the template every mining incremental since has copied. Ten years and a Ubisoft acquisition later, the loop still works — the monetisation menu and the interface built on top of it are where the wear shows.
6.5 / 10
A short, watercolour visual novel from zorkie studios about grief, friendship and the urge to disappear into your art, landing "Mostly Positive" on a launch sample split between genuine emotional impact and a widely shared complaint that it's over almost as soon as it begins.
6.5 / 10
Twenty Minutes You Won't Forget on the Way Down Incident Archives - Flight 882, a free release from Astronix Games (the studio previously behind The Fallow City), launched on A
6.5 / 10
A cozy, tiny solo-dev incremental about growing a space company planet by planet — short enough to draw a fair complaint at launch, and a developer who fixed exactly that within a week.
6.5 / 10
